[Opensim-dev] The state of content tools

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 00:59, <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
> What is the state of the art for converting pre-existing 3D content into
> SL-OpenSim prims/sculpties? I'm thinking AutoCAD, Maya, Sketchup, among
> others. I'm involved in a project that really needs this kind of content.

I know we did some work on this at 3Di while I was there. Some
existing plugins were modified and used to convert stuff from SketchUp
and Maya and maybe some others. Their product page[1] says it supports
importing models from 3DSMax, too.

Try poking some of the 3Di folks, maybe they'll be able to tell you more.

There was also work on a viewer for OpenSim (called OpenViewer) that
can display meshes, if you need. There's some videos of it on YouTube,
like this one[2]. The poster of that video uploads quite regularly :)

HTH,
Mike


[1] http://3di-opensim.com/en/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkxjh6exLXA